THE

EARLY HISTORY

OF

NEW ENGLAND,

ILLUSTRATED BY

NUMEROUS INTERESTING INCIDENTS.

BY REV. HENRY WHITE, 790-158

"O God, our fathers have told us what work thou didst in their days."

EIGHTH EDITION.

CONCORD, N. H.

I. S. BOYD AND E. W. BUSWELL,

Opposite the Railroad Depot.

1843.

Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1841, By Rev. HENRY WHITE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of New-Hampshire.

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY

MORRILL, SILSBY, & CO. CONCORD, N. H

PREFACE.

Ir has been the growing conviction of the author of these pages, that there is much in the early history of New England suited to effect the happiest results; that it contains numerous incidents highly adapted to exhibit God in a most glorious and delightful view; to give us admiring thoughts of his wisdom, benevolence, and faithfulness; to inflame the love, strengthen the faith, and awaken the gratitude of his people; to interest and instruct the mind, and to promote morality and religion in the community.

With this impression, it seemed exceedingly desirable that these incidents should be extensively read. But hitherto they have been confined to a few rare works, so that, to most persons, they have been inaccessible, and to a great degree unknown. The design of this volume is, to embody these incidents, and present them to the reader in one view.

Selections have been made from the following works, viz. Mather's Magnalia, Winthrop's Journal, Morton's New England Memorial, Prince's Chronology, Hubbard's History of New England; the Histories of Hutchinson, Trumbull, Belknap, Williams,

Whiton, Williamson, Sullivan, Morse and Parish; Neal's History of New England; Dwight's Travels; the Annals of Holmes; Trumbull's History of the United States, Hoyt's Antiquarian Researches and Indian Wars, Barber's Historical Collections of Massachusetts, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Goodrich's Church History, Annals of Portsmouth, Memoirs of Roger Williams, Drake's Indian Biography, Allen's Biographical Dictionary, Hubbard's Indian Wars, Thacher's History of Plymouth, Willis' History of Portland, Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Hawes' Tribute to the Memory of the Pilgrims, Mirick's History of Haverhill, Williams' Memoir of Rev. John Williams, Turner's Traits of Indian Character, Bacon's Historical Discourses, and Barber's Historical Collections of Connecticut. Some incidents have been taken from Miss Leslie's Boston Cards, and from other small works.